Australian trade, investment & economy

In an Economic Briefing column in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Stephen Grenville writes that appropriately measuring output is complicated.Australian Financial Review, 24 October 2011, p. 23

China is not only Australia's largest trading partner, but is also an increasingly important supplier of capital. In a Lowy Institute Analysis, John Larum draws on a series of interviews with Chinese investors and their advisors to look at their attitude towards investing in Australia and

China’s huge appetite for resources is reshaping the Australian economy

On 2 February, the second half of the Wednesday Lunch series was launched with a discussion by three Lowy Institute scholars, Rory Medcalf, Annmaree O'Keeffe and Sam Roggeveen, on how Australia should be preparing for some of the big global and regional policy challenges in the second decade of the

On Friday 10 December, the Lowy Institute brought together the Hon Dr Craig Emerson MP, Minister for Trade, and an expert panel including Alex Thursby, the Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific, Europe & America, ANZ Banking Group and Anwarul Hoda, the Chair Professor of ICRIER’s Trade Policy and

While Chinese foreign investment into Australia has been the subject of a great deal of controversy, investment flows moving in the other direction have received much less attention. In a new Lowy Institute Analysis, John Larum reviews Australian foreign direct investment into China and discusses

This paper by Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin and Timo Henckel summarises a conference held in Sydney on 18-19 March 2010, which was sponsored by the Asian Development Bank, Australian National University, the Brookings Institution, the Lowy Institute for International Policy and

In an article in The Australian, Mark Thirlwell, Program Director International Economy, discusses Chinese foreign investment in Australia.The Australian, 24 September 2009, p. 3

The 2009 Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World was delivered on 18 November by Mr Marius Kloppers, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of BHP Billiton Ltd

In a paper written for an IPA conference on Australia's Investment Future, the Institute's Andrew Shearer and Mark Thirlwell take a look at the politics and economics of Australia’s foreign investment regime. They examine the extent to which the regime is adequate to safeguard the national

In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Dr Malcolm Cook, Program Director East Asia, argues that it is very much in Australia's interest that the free-trade deal between the United States and South Korea be ratified soon. Australian Financial Review, 18 July 2008, p. 75

In a piece in the Business section of The Australian newspaper, Mark Thirlwell takes a look at the policy challenge raised by the ongoing surge of Chinese investment into the Australian resource sector

A Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) has been proposed as a long-term prospect by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC

On 31 October, the Lowy Institute hosted an election debate between the Trade Minister, the Hon. Warren Truss, and the Shadow Trade Minister, the Hon. Simon Crean. Both speakers reaffirmed their belief that the WTO Doha Round could still deliver a global deal and presented their parties' different

In a presentation delivered to the 2007 Australia-New Zealand Leadership Forum, Alan Gyngell, David Skilling and Mark Thirlwell look at some of the challenges posed to both economies by globalisation. In particular, they argue that although globalisation has changed the geography of the world

In December 2006, the Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted a seminar on 'Australia and World'. The seminar built on the contemporaneous launch of three Lowy Papers on the Australian economy, foreign and defence policy. Leading scholars, commentators and practitioners were asked to talk

After fifteen years of uninterrupted growth, Australia's quiet economic boom shows no signs of ending. 

On 21 September, the Hon Peter Costello MP, Treasurer, addressed the Lowy Institute for International Policy. In his speech entitled "International Demographic and Economic Change, and What It Means for Australia", Mr Costello identified the economic rise of China and India as the dominant narrative

In an article in the current edition of The Diplomat, Mark Thirlwell reviews some of the causes and possible consequences of the spread of preferential trade deals to East Asia. The Diplomat, Vol. 5 no. 1, April/May 2006, pp. 37-38

Australia’s terms of trade have changed significantly in recent years. This is true in a technical sense, in that there has been a dramatic run-up in the ratio of export to import prices. But it is also true in a broader sense, in that the terms on which we engage with the rest of the world

Malcolm Cook and Mark Thirlwell of the Lowy Institute write in an opinion piece that we should not forget that Japan is Asia's unparalleled economic giant and Australia's most important trading partner. Prime Minister Koizumi's landslide election win on Sunday 11 September reflects a more assertive

Professor Ross Garnaut delivered the Third Sir Leslie Melville Lecture at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, on 3 December 2004

Professor Ross Garnaut AO delivered a paper on emerging preferential trade agreements in the Asia Pacific region at a Public Lecture, Asialink, Melbourne, 22 March 2005

Stephen Grenville offers a checklist for a free trade agreement with China.Australian Financial Review, 8 November 2004, p. 23